orceps, or galvano-cautery. The
operation is usually attended with little or no pain.

FOR MORE THAN TWENTY-FIVE YEARS the physicians of the Invalids' Hotel
and Surgical Institute, have been successfully treating tumors by means
of electricity. More recently, the medical profession has quite
generally adopted electrical applications in response to the advice of
Apostoli, of Paris. The plan used however is crude. It does not compare
in results with the successful and safe procedure that our surgeons have
invented and pursued.

Electrical treatment will destroy the life of ovarian and fibroid tumors
if applied early and after the improved methods so long used at our
Institution. The destructive effect of electricity is modified by the
introduction of certain electro-chemical applications so that it attacks
and kills only the cells of the tumor.

THE VERY LARGE OVARIAN TUMORS, however, are not amenable to treatment by
this process. The walls of their cysts become so thin and weak, while
the pressure of the fluid from within is so great, that sudden and
spontaneous rupture is liable to occur at any time and produce death.
Removal by a cutting operation is necessary in such cases. Fortunately
this procedure, as skillfully modified and perfected by experience, has,
in the hands of our surgeons, proven free from the dangers and hazard
common to Ovariotomy. This is due to skillful operation and to the fact
that in our Institution the sanitary arrangements are as perfect as it
is possible to make them. Everything is at hand in the way of
instruments and appliances likely to be required, and the entire
procedure is conducted upon the principles of perfect cleanliness and
antisepsis, which obviate the risk of inflammation and blood-poisoning.

Furthermore, our nurses have had such fine training and such a vast
experience in their attendance upon such cases, that wants are
anticipated, and details, that would escape those not so well qualified,
are looked after so thoughtfully and vigilantly that the convalescence
is rapid, as well as being in every way comfortable and safe. Under such
conditions

OUR SURGEONS HAVE COMPLETED A LONG LIST OF REMOVALS OF OVARIAN TUMORS
WITHOUT A SINGLE DEATH!

We are, therefore, _warranted_ in stating that

THE DANGERS DUE TO THE PRESENCE OF THESE TUMORS ARE FAR GREATER THAN THE
SLIGHT RISKS OF REMOVAL BY THE SKILLFUL METHODS EMPLOYED BY OUR
SURGEONS.

Owing to a change made in the anaesthet